Monday, June 20, 2005

OK, besides my new toy, I got a new phone as well. It's Nokia 3230 (I'm used to Nokia). I still can't connect it with the computer yet (the infra-red of the notebook doesn't seem to be responsing and I don't have any bluetooth/cable connector…), so I can't get back the photos that I taken, and can't use the phone as a MP3 player yet :-P.

Sunday, June 19, 2005

I bought a LinkStation (250GB) yesterday. It's cool. I've centralized some of my data to this server, hence they are accessible from any machine within my LAN.

I tried to setup the FTP but no success. I can set up the FTP as anonymous FTP, but it is not accessible from the WWW (it said possible PASV port theft). If I set it up as restricted FTP (require LinkStation user login), the server is even not accessible (connection refused). I wonder what's wrong with it, or is it just me? :-S

Google finally made a XHTML interface (send as application/xhtml+xml!) for its search service. It's a much cleaner interface intended for mobile devices. But I think even desktop users should give it a try! ;-)

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Today, I found that Google has successful (to some extends) indexed my "cutting-edge" XHTML site:

&site.title;File Format: Unrecognized - View as HTMLWeatherPixie This is the personal website of Martin Ng (ä¼æ˜åº·), a computer science graduate. This site serves as a testbed for my experiments about ...minghong.f2g.net/ - Similar pages

Why "to some extends"? Because:

It fails to recognize "application/xhtml+xml" as XML

Hence it doesn't use UTF-8 as the default encoding, leading in problem displaying Chinese characters

Monday, June 06, 2005

First Safari, then iCab, and now Konqueror. I guess Opera will be the fourth browser to pass the Acid2 test, since Mozilla developers don't seem to be interested in passing it. I'm quite sure that Firefox will pass it sooner or later (perhaps Gecko 1.9?), but it is not the top priority.

Friday, June 03, 2005

With the release of Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 1, the old-school spellchecker is now replaced with a smarter inline spellchecker as expected in word processing tools like Microsoft Word and OOo Writer. However, the default dictionary ironically doesn't contain the defination of Firefox and Thunderbird:

I guess it is not that hard to add these Mozilla-related words into the dictionary, right?

Secunia has reported a rather stupid weakness in Internet Explorer that can crush the browser by simply using JavaScript. One just need to add window() (yes, incorrectly used this object as a method) to the onload event handler of the HTML document.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

The Summer of Code is Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of Open Source Software Development.

This Summer, don't let your programming skills lie fallow...Use them for the greater good of Open Source Software and computer science! Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Deer Park Alpha 1 is an alpha release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Deer Park Alpha 1 is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x should not use Deer Park Alpha 1.

About Me

An ordinary Hong Kong young man, graduated in computer science at City University of Hong Kong in 2005, who likes surfing, blogging and watching anime/manga. An evangelist of web standards, non-toy Databases, Mozilla, Google, Gmail, and Blogger.